WA Country Hour interviews GFCQ CEO
Western Australia’s farm and pastoral land is currently the focus of a lot of big business interests. Andrew Forrest has recently purchased another three cattle stations in the north west, and has plans to develop a renewable energy hub on one of them via his company Fortescue Future Industries.
But the mining billionaire isn’t the only company knocking on homestead doors. Rural and regional communities are now trying to work out the best way to negotiate with these companies and get a win-win outcome for the farmer, the business and the community.
ABC Radio’s WA Country Hour host Belinda Varischetti spoke with GasFields Commission Queensland CEO Warwick Squire about parallels between the coexistence issues the Gasfields Commission has been dealing with and what is currently emerging in some rural communities of Western Australia. Listen to the program below [interview begins at 15:08].
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